Thank you, FatalError.  I'm working hard to get 1.3.23 out the door.  It will definitely work better.  We'll re-visit this issue with Chromium after that.

Arghh.  It's not supposed to be intuitive; it's supposed to just work.  When it sees you need the extension, it tells Chromium, and Chromium displays a message asking you if it's OK.

It worked for me, and I'll retest for the next version 1.3.23.  Version 1.3.23 also has a window for controlling this (which should rarely be necessary), so it will be easier to troubleshoot.  Thank you for your patience.

Chromium will also show you, in menu Window ▸ Extensions, what extensions are installed.

?ô wrote on May 11^th, 2011 at 10:41am:
It should do it once, and then Chromium should ask you if it's OK to install BookMacster's extension.  I'll retest later today, but it may be difficult to reproduce since of course I'm working on version 1.3.23 now.

Nice. I just received my first notification of this forum (evarrr).

Not sure about FreeSMUG since I'm on the nightlies.

Thanks for the heads-up Jerry. I understand what you write, but what is it that FreeSMUG changes, that currently breaks support of BookMacster? Do they change directory names?

On a sidenote: I still think mail-notifications on this forum here are broken. Did you ever check that? I now subscribed to this thread. Let's see if I receive anything. (I checked "Get Notification" which is analog to the more commonly used "Subscribtion" and then the optional follow up Notification (e.g. as in ipBoard).

Yes and Yes

Find the latest nightlies here: http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/snapshots/Mac/

And for an update mechanism, consider using chromatic: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/32856/chromatic

Also, if you like to stay with the stable builds with identical version number to the chrome stables Chromium here is what you'd want to consider. Those have sparkle integration and will notify you of updates if a new stable release arrives: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/36244/chromium


Cheerios!

?ô wrote on Apr 16^th, 2011 at 5:50pm:
Doing OK, considering that we consider it to be still in development.

?ô wrote on Apr 16^th, 2011 at 5:50pm:
The design is such  that Chromium should work like Chrome.  We'll check into it.

BookMacster 1.3.19 has been published.

Although there are no known bugs, this release is labelled alpha because it updates your Bookmarkshelf documents in a couple ways, and more importantly it includes our new Firefox Extension.  For now, the extension merely allows BookMacster to export to or import from Firefox without quitting Firefox.  We plan that the next version will install a menu item within Firefox to replace the BookMacsterize bookmarklet, and allow changed Firefox bookmarks to trigger an Agent before Firefox quits, working as we do now with Safari.

To install the Firefox extension, launch Firefox, then open a Bookmarkshelf in BookMacster 1.3.19, and Import from (or Export to) Firefox.  If you don't want the import, either click Edit ▸ Undo Import or close the document with Don't Save.  If you have multiple Firefox profiles, this must be done for each profile.

We've found that, unlike Chrome which is really fast when we tell it to insert or delete bookmarks, Firefox is quite slow.  While this is not an issue during normal day-to-day operation, when you're adding a few bookmarks, if you're doing a "wholesale" export which inserts or deletes hundreds of bookmarks, it will be faster to quit Firefox so that BookMacster can use our old method instead.  With Firefox running, expect 4 minutes per thousand new or deleted bookmarks on a mid-grade Mac, during which time Firefox will beachball and be unusable.  The next version of BookMacster might estimate the time and display a warning, or maybe just quit Firefox for you, if it's going to take over a couple tens of seconds.

This version drops support for Firefox 3.0 - 3.5.  Import or Export of Firefox bookmarks with this version of BookMacster 1.3.19 or later requires Firefox 3.6 or later.

To get BookMacster 1.3.19, launch BookMacster and in Preferences ▸ Updating, check the box for Alpha - very early adopter.  Then go back to the menu and Check for Update.

You may report bugs either here or via email to support@sheepsystems.com.  If you do it in this forum, and you've got a specific bug or suggestion, start a new topic.

Thank you!